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AI will kill all the lawyers

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Re: AI will kill all the lawyers

#32

Law has one of the strongest "unions" in the form of the Bar Association, backed by legal force. You cannot practice law without "passing they bar" as they say. The lawyers who operate the Bar can just decide they wont be replaced and then they wont, AI will remain a tool used by human lawyers.

You can't create derivative works of copyrighted materials either, yet here we are. I'm sure they'll find a creative loophole.

Re: AI will kill all the lawyers

#33
post #18

I think theoretically, it's okay for LLMs to write legal briefs, to replace attorneys. Write the best argument you can with whatever tools you want. What worries me is the idea of them replacing JUDGES.

Isn't there a Chris Pratt movie about this coming out in January?

Re: AI will kill all the lawyers

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post #18

I think theoretically, it's okay for LLMs to write legal briefs, to replace attorneys. Write the best argument you can with whatever tools you want. What worries me is the idea of them replacing JUDGES.

Actually, that’s the high-value model. Imagine you have a bunch of LLMs tuned to different sensibilities that match great jurists, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Learned Hand, maybe Aristotle to mix things up, maybe a real jurist. And your attorney tunes their arguments to be persuasive to whatever model they believe is dominant.

It’s a short leap to comparing model scores to determine a quick and dirty settlement “winner” which really isn’t that far from manual processes.

Lawyering will look different, but there definitely will be lawyers. Judging on the other hand…. Judging is the one I wonder about.

Re: AI will kill all the lawyers

#38

Of course the lawyers go for Grok

I've used Grok for legal work (falsely accused, and also in a divorce) and it is very good. I've used ChatGPT also and it is not bad, but not as good as Grok. This is just my own personal experience but I suspect others who have decided to try Grok end up sticking with it.

Re: AI will kill all the lawyers

#39

Law has one of the strongest "unions" in the form of the Bar Association, backed by legal force. You cannot practice law without "passing they bar" as they say. The lawyers who operate the Bar can just decide they wont be replaced and then they wont, AI will remain a tool used by human lawyers.

>You cannot practice law without "passing they bar"

You are however entitled to represent yourself without passing the bar, and thus use the AI to help your case.

Even for the remaining lawyers, I imagine that their billable hours will crater due to competitive dynamics.

Re: AI will kill all the lawyers

#40
This article talks about martinis about as much as it talks about the careers of lawyers being threatened by AI. The article provides no real justification for its claims outside of anecdotal opinions. The only value of this article is that it results in a discussion in the comments section that provide the actual credence to the claims.
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